All Eyes on DNC, Powell Friday Speach as Market Advances Monday
Good morning, traders, and happy Monday, August 19th; I'm back from a week-long trip to the Adirondack mountains. I missed a big week for retail company earnings, but I'm happy to return before Fed Prez Jerome Powell Speaks about monetary policy at Jackson Hole on Friday. The Democratic National Convention also began Monday, but there has been little stock market-related news out of the Harris campaign.
Here are stocks moooving on Wall Street today.
Estée Lauder Cos. $Estee Lauder (EL.US)$ fell about 2% Monday after beating estimates for sales and EPS, but reporting it had begun a search for a new CEO. CEO Fabrizio Freda plans to retire at the end of fiscal year 2025 after 16 years in the job.
$HP Inc (HPQ.US)$ shares fell nearly 4%, after a Morgan Stanley analyst downgrade.
Zim Integrated Shipping $ZIM Integrated Shipping (ZIM.US)$ rose 19% Monday after the company lifted its guidance, driven by continued supply pressure from the Red Sea crisis, and achieved a record high level of carried volume for the second quarter. The firm swung a $213M loss in Q1 to a Q2 profit of $373M profit.
$Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.US)$ was leading AI semiconductor news after the firm agreed to pay $5B for data-center equipment designer ZT Systems. Wall Street Journal reported the firm is using a 75% cash/25% stock ratio, about $3.375 billion in cash and nearly 8.34 million shares valued at $1.125 billion, or around $134.96 apiece, well below the current trading p[rice of $150.
Investors are watching for a few retail-focused firms this week. $Lowe's Companies (LOW.US)$ arrives Tuesday, $Target (TGT.US)$ on Wednesday. There are tech firms aswell, with $Zoom Video Communications (ZM.US)$ and Wednesday. $Palo Alto Networks (PANW.US)$ Palo Alto Networks reports tonight after the closing bell.
$Crude Oil Futures(OCT4) (CLmain.US)$ fell, $Bitcoin (BTC.CC)$ fell to $58k, Gold remained at its multi-year high.
$U.S. 2-Year Treasury Notes Yield (US2Y.BD)$ climbed, and the $U.S. 10-Year Treasury Notes Yield (US10Y.BD)$ fell.
The market was gaining ground Monday morning after two weeks of gains. The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industial Average, and Nasdaq were up 6-8% overall in the past seven sessions, rebounding from a red July in the hopes that the Federal Reserve will signal rate cuts soon.
Just past 10:17 am ET the $S&P 500 Index (.SPX.US)$ climbed 0.02%, the $Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI.US)$ climbed 0.18%, and the $Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC.US)$ fell 0.15%.
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Red__Bull : DNC - will be interesting week for the markets. Will they keep talking price controls, high cap gains tax, un-realized cap gains tax? If so, major sell-off signals.
Kevin Travers OP Red__Bull : I feel they will finally have to finalize what their policys like that actually look like this week. Dems have been so happy t odonate to a younger politician with oval office experiance stepping in to run, but they have not made clear what she stands for besides Biden lite basically
LittleSoldier : She is a train wreck to say the least, price control is a disastrous idea that will cause businesses to close and unemployment. Not to mention the idea of 25k for first time buyers will end up likely a repeat of 2008 housing market crash!!!
Kevin Travers OP LittleSoldier : after the covid hand out checks and PPP money programs and all the money they printed to do that in 2020, I think we all look at stimulus policy with a different eye than before
LittleSoldier : One of many hand out policies that their solution seems to be to just print more. Between an estimated 10 to 18 million illegals pumped into social security, Medicaid, Housing. Free Student loans and crippling energy demands is not sustainable!!